With more than 80 exercises NEW to the workbook!

Language Exercises for Teachers, Second Edition

By Louisa Cook Moats, Ed.D., & Bruce Rosow, Ed.D.

Completely revamped with all-new exercises, the second edition of this workbook is the perfect way to help teachers practice and strengthen the critical skills and knowledge they learned from the bestselling Speech to Print textbook. Bruce Rosow, a highly respected teacher trainer and veteran Speech to Print user, has teamed with Louisa Moats to develop a more creative, engaging new edition that responds to high user demand for exercises unique to the workbook. To help prepare them for success in the classroom, current and future reading teachers will get

• more than 80 new or revised exercises, not found in the Speech to Print textbook
  
  
• helpful icons that explicitly connect the workbook to the textbook
  
  
• new quizzes to help teachers reinforce their knowledge of language building blocks, including phonetics, phonology, and morphology
  
  
• new and improved layout that makes the workbook easier to use
  
  
• a wide variety of effective exercises, including fill-in-the-blanks, multiple choice, matching activities, spelling error analysis, and transcription
  
  
• exercises that provide models for instruction

Perfect for preservice teacher education courses or for in-service professional development, this easy-to-use workbook will help ensure that educators grasp the complex concepts in the Speech to Print text.

Educators will be ready to deliver high-quality reading instruction in elementary classrooms and teach children the reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills they'll need for the rest of their lives.

About the Authors

Chapter 1: To the Student

How to Use This Workbook
How to Use the Surveys of Language Knowledge
Knowledge and Practice Standards for Teachers of Reading
Appendix 1.1: Surveys of Language Knowledge

Chapter 2: Phonetics

Exercise 1: Phoneme Counting
Exercise 2: Why Phonemes Are Elusive
Exercise 3: Identify the Third Phoneme
Exercise 4: Rationale for Phonetic Alphabet and Transcription
Exercise 5: Distinctive Features of Phonemes
Exercise 6: Discover the Consonant Sounds of English
Exercise 7: Exploring the Glides
Exercise 8: Phonetic Symbol Tiles for Consonants
Exercise 9: First and Last Consonants
Exercise 10: Discover the Vowels of American English
Exercise 11: Phonetic Symbol Tiles for Vowels
Exercise 12: Vowel Matching
Exercise 13: Sorting Words with Similar Vowel Sounds
Exercise 14: Introduction to Schwa (/ə/)
Exercise 15: Transcription
Exercise 16: English and Spanish Vowel Sounds
Exercise 17: Concluding Exercise
Chapter 2 Final Quiz
Chapter 2 Answer Key

Chapter 3: Phonology

Exercise 18: Review Exercise: Vowel Sorting
Exercise 19: Phoneme Sequences
Exercise 20: Syllable Boundaries
Exercise 21: Tricks for Teaching Syllable Awareness
Exercise 22: Identifying Effects of Stress and Intonation on Spelling
Exercise 23: Word (Auditory) Discrimination
Exercise 24: Speech Production
Exercise 25: Phonological Memory, Retrieval, and Naming
Exercise 26: Phoneme Awareness Tasks
Exercise 27: Phonemes and Minimal Pairs
Exercise 28: Phonetic Variation and Allophones
Exercise 29: Identifying Schwa
Exercise 30: Vowel Nasalization
Exercise 31: Aspirated and Deaspirated Voiceless Stops /p/, /t/, /k/
Exercise 32: Elaborated Phonetic Transcription
Exercise 33: Flapping, Affrication of /t/ and /d/, and Vowel Raising
Exercise 34: Spelling Error Analysis
Chapter 3 Final Quiz
Chapter 3 Answer Key

Chapter 4: The Structure of English Orthography

Exercise 35: Meaning and Sound
Exercise 36: Sorting Words by Language of Origin
Exercise 37: Word Construction by Morpheme
Exercise 38: What Is a Grapheme?
Exercise 39: Consonant Blends and Digraphs
Exercise 40: Word Sorts with /k/
Exercise 41: Magic Squares to Teach Spellings of /ǰ/
Exercise 42: Vowel Alternations or "Choice" Spellings
Exercise 43: Constraints on Letter Use
Exercise 44: Six Types of Syllables
Exercise 45: Doubled Consonants
Exercise 46: VCV Syllable Division
Exercise 47: When Schwa Happens
Exercise 48: Rules for Adding Suffixes
Chapter 4 Final Quiz
Chapter 4 Answer Key

Chapter 5: Morphology

Introductory Self-Assessment
Exercise 49: Why Morphology Is Important for Reading and Spelling
Exercise 50: Categories of Morphemes
Exercise 51: Word Building with Morphemes
Exercise 52: The Meaning of Compounds
Exercise 53: Common Anglo-Saxon Affixes
Exercise 54: Latin-Based Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes
Exercise 55: Assimilated Prefixes
Exercise 56: Greek Combining Forms
Exercise 57: Inflectional and Derivational Suffixes
Exercise 58: Past Tense Inflectional Suffixes
Exercise 59: Supplementary Exercise, Derivational Suffixes
Exercise 60: Schwa Happens in Longer Words
Exercise 61: Suffixes with Soft ti, ci, and si
Exercise 62: Derivational Complexity 1
Exercise 63: Derivational Complexity 2
Exercise 64: How to Identify a Morpheme in an Unknown Word
Exercise 65: Limitations on Morpheme Productivity
Exercise 66: Morpheme Maps
Exercise 67: Spelling Error Wonders of the World
Informal Assessment of Morphological Awareness
Chapter 5 Cumulative Quiz: Phonology, Orthography, and Morphology
Chapter 5 Answer Key

Chapter 6: Syntax

Exercise 68: Sentences as Frameworks into Which Words Can Be Slotted
Exercise 69: The Behavior of Verbs
Exercise 70: Descriptive vs. Prescriptive
Exercise 71: Phrases
Exercise 72: Phrases and Clauses
Exercise 73: Participles
Exercise 74: Conjunction Junction
Exercise 75: Sorting Phrases, Dependent Clauses, and Independent Clauses
Exercise 76: How Sentences Grow
Exercise 77: Ambiguity
Exercise 78: Transformations
Exercise 79: Students' Syntactical Errors
Chapter 6 Answer Key

Chapter 7: Semantics

Exercise 80: Introduction
Exercise 81: Definitions and Semantic Features
Exercise 82: Superordinate and Subordinate Categories
Exercise 83: Deep and Rich Vocabulary Knowledge
Exercise 84: Synonyms
Exercise 85: Formal Marking of Semantic Features
Exercise 86: Creating Antonyms with Prefixes
Multiple Meanings/Polysemous Words
Exercise 87: Phrase and Sentence Meaning: Paraphrase
Exercise 88: Reference: Cases of Mistaken Identity
Exercise 89: Verb Phrases and Transitive Property
Exercise 90: Idioms
Exercise 91: Metaphor
Exercise 92: Pragmatics: Making Sense in Context
Teaching Vocabulary and Other Aspects of Meaning
Chapter 7 Answer Key

Chapter 8: Additional Case Studies

Exercise 93: Cynthia's Writing Sample (Age 9, Grade 3)
Exercise 94: Larry's Writing Sample (Age 15, Grade 10)
Chapter 8 Answer Key

Appendix A: Student Assessments: Developmental Spelling Inventories

Directions for Administering the Spelling Inventories
Primary Spelling Inventory—Individual Score Sheet
Elementary Spelling Inventory—Individual Score Sheet